How to Get Rid of Metronome Delay in Mixcraft

by Mrs. Gunn

https://recordlabel101.net

Basically, this tutorial teaches you how to change the sound for the metronome within Mixcraft DAW.

How to Get Rid of Metronome Delay in Mixcraft
Often, when you record MIDI into the computer and you have the metronome on, you have a situation where the sound is recorded behind the beat. This is different from the latency you hear with the keyboard. You can fix keyboard latency by lowering the buffer size and lowering the sample rate. What I’m talking about here is when you have very little latency, but your music is still behind the beat – consistently. What is happening, at least in Mixcraft, is that it takes too long for the computer to process the metronome sound. For instance, let’s say that the metronome sound is 25 megabytes. Well, it might take the computer a tenth of a second to process the 25 megabyte sound. As a result, you hear the “tick” a tenth of a second later. Therefore, even if you are playing exactly with the metronome, all of your music will be recorded a tenth of a second behind the actual real time. This tutorial teaches you how to convert the original metronome sound from a WAV to an MP3 file so that it cuts down on the amount of time the computer takes to process the metronome sound.

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How to make a google translate beat box:

by Mrs. Gunn

From this website:

http://www.geekosystem.com/how-to-make-google-translate-beatbox/

1. Go to Google Translate (http://translate.google.com)

2. Copy and paste this into the box on the left:

pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch

3. Set language to translate from german to german

5. click the listen button on the bottom right hand corner of the box on the right

Enjoy!

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Harmonics and Waveform – Part 2

by Mrs. Gunn



Youtube Video – Introduction to the concept of Harmonics


Click below to hear the fundamental and first 8 harmonics of the A note.

 Harmonics Track
When a string vibrates, as on a piano, it actually vibrates in many different places.


Below is a picture of all the different vibrations on a bowed string. Each different frequency is heard as a harmonic. If you press lightly on a node while strumming or plucking the string, you will hear the harmonic instead of the fundamental (actually, the harmonic became the fundamental, that’s why you hear it instead of the original fundamental). This is how guitarists tune their guitars with harmonics. It’s easier to hear if it’s in tune because the notes are higher in pitch.

 


The fundamental and all its harmonics are also called the “overtone series” and are notated as follows:

When you play that lowest C, you are actually hearing all those other notes as well. Additionally, because of a combination of physics and musical insight,  instruments are designed to play the first seven or eight harmonics with one fingering.

Waveform

Different waveforms are created by adding and subtracting certain harmonics.
The sine wave is a pure sound and emphasizes the fundamental.  The square wave emphasizes odd numbered harmonics. The triangle waveform emphasizes very few specific odd numbered harmonics. The sawtooth wave emphasizes all the harmonics.

Click below to hear examples of each of these types of waves:
Sine, Square, Triangle, Sawtooth

Another synth principal is the envelope of the sound. The start, middle, and stop of the sound is what makes it sound different over time. This envelope is called:

Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

an example of an ADSR Envelope. This could be a very stilted piano sound.












Now all these videos on Teachertube…


Introduction to Harmonics




Tuning Fork and Piano



Breaking the Sound Barrier



Piano Harmonics




Bowing across the string in slow motion




Introduction to Sound Waves (1950s video)

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